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Spanning 1970-1972, this superb collection takes us back to Gil Scott-Heron's early years, when he was working with jazz producer Bob Thiele -- a man who had been in the studio with everyone from John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders to Coleman Hawkins. But The Revolution Will Not Be Televised...

Due to his decision to settle in Los Angeles, tenor saxophonist Harold Land has long been underrated. A strong op stylist who later on would be influenced a great deal by John Coltrane, Land in 1959 had a sound closer to Sonny Rollins. For this excellent straight-ahead quintet set with...

By 1995, pianist Harold Danko had led the same quartet for several years and his musicians had really mastered and grown into Danko's complex originals. Danko and tenor saxophonist Rich Perry (both of whom had developed fairly original voices) often sound as if they are thinking alike...

Harold Land, a long underrated tenor giant based in Los Angeles, is quite melodic yet subtly explorative on his surprising disc. Backed by a string orchestra arranged and conducted by Ray Ellis and a rhythm section led by pianist Bill Henderson, Land explores dozen standards that are highlighted...

Subtitled "The Harold Arlen Songbook," this 60-minute disc finds the Ralph Sharon Trio -- with Douglas Richeson on bass and Clayton Cameron on drums -- highlighting the work of the most jazz- and blues-oriented of the Broadway and Hollywood composers of the 1940s and '50s. Sharon...

Harold Danko is a perfect example of a veteran musician who might not be recognized by the average jazz listener but who is composing interesting originals and finding new approaches to others' songs. With frequent collaborators Michael Formanek on bass and Jeff Hirschfield on drums,...

Of all of her Songbooks (which are now available on the remarkable 16-CD set The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books), the Harold Arlen and Duke Ellington sets are the most jazz-oriented. With perfectly suitable arrangements by Billy May for the ig band and occasional strings, she really digs...

A single disc culled from the two-record set to make more money for the label. First class. All the songbook dates are masterful. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide

Not long after saxophonists Dick Oatts and Rich Perry joined the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, pianist Harold Danko (who was already in the band) was very impressed with their abilities, and he began to conceive of a record date featuring both men by the early '80s, though it...

This duo date reunites two musicians who have worked together on many recording sessions since first playing alongside one another in the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra during the 1970s. Tenor saxophonist Rich Perry and pianist Harold Danko make up a compelling duo, as each musician intuitively...

The Sunnyside label made an auspicious debut in 1982 with this album, a fine duo session featuring pianist Harold Danko and bassist Rufus Reid, who worked together in the rhythm section of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. Starting off with a rollicking treatment of Thelonious Monk's...

Scott Joplin was the king of ragtime composers. The great success of his Maple Leaf Rag, which was published in 1899, launched a ragtime craze that dominated popular music until around 1915. It seems only fitting that the ragtime revival that occurred in the early 1970s was inspired by the...

After decades of influencing everyone from jazz musicians to hip-hop stars, Pieces of a Man set a standard for vocal artistry and political awareness that few musicians will ever match. Scott-Heron's unique proto- ap style influenced a generation of hip-hop artists, and nowhere is his style...

This compilation features 21 tracks from Gil Scott-Heron's first three long-players -- Small Talk at 125th and Lenox (1970), Pieces of a Man (1971), and Free Will (1972) -- all for producer Bob Thiele's Flying Dutchman label. Although Scott-Heron's seminal recordings consisted of...

Although the title gets you geared for a compilation, in fact all 16 of the tracks on this CD came from a single session on May 23, 1958. It was Scott's first session as a leader, in fact, yielding her two albums Great Scott! and Shirley's Sounds, and everything from those two LPs is...

If you already own the original El Saturn label LP by Sun Ra bearing this title, you will still desire a copy of this item from ESP-Disk for several reasons. It does in fact contain the initially issued live recordings Ra did featuring Black Harold Murray and Pharoah Sanders, but also includes...

Jazz music, always known for its spirit of improvisation, was hardly the medium for composers or producers during its first 50 years. Even the greatest early arrangers -- Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Don Redman -- allowed plenty of room for solos, and would've been deserted by most...

In 1962, flush with the success of Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Ray Charles signed one of his favorite singers, Little Jimmy Scott, to his Tangerine label with the purpose of supervising an album of allads. He hired a pair of genial arrangers, Gerald Wilson and Marty Paich (both...

This is one of many GRP compilations in the series with the not-so-self-effacing designation of Priceless Jazz Collection. It brings together selections from two albums made by Stanley Turrentine and Shirley Scott in the 1960s: Let It Go, made at the Rudy Van Gelder studio in Englewood Cliffs,...

Ronnie Scott will always be best remembered as the owner of England's most famous jazz club, Ronnie Scott's. However he was also quite significant as one of England's top musicians of the ebop era and the 1950s. The tenor saxophonist is featured throughout this CD on some of his...